Updating to Flash Builder 4.6 plugin

hi,
I have FB 4.5(.1) as an Eclipse plugin. Now I want to upfate/upgrade to the 4.6 plugin.
I read http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/921/cpsid_92180.html
but it confuses me. So before I remove anything:
I this a free update?
If so, will the update recognize my serial key when I first uninstall 4.5?
How about all the SDK's in my 4.5 sdks folder? Will I loose them?
And hence, should I overlay again the AIR SDK after updating?
thanks,
Jeff.

Thanks. It took me quite a while to get 4.6 installed.
I uninstalled 4.5(.1) but got an error anyway when initializing the installation of 4.6
Then I tried uninstalling Adobe Air from the utilities directory under Application as described in this thread
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4088712
That didn't work either.
Finally I uninstalled Flash CS5 as well as my complete CS4 suite. I am not sure if only uninstallng Flash CS5 would have been sufficient, maybe.
After this I sucesfully installed Flash Builder 4.6, and then re-installed the CS4 suite and Flash CS5.
The only problem left is that when I create a new project and compile, I get a java.lang.NullPointerException
but I will post that in a new thread...

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